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Okay- here is my very short list of favorite tracks off the top of my head- all I had time for at work.
![]() Tori Amos- China Counting Crows- Anna Begins Stevie Nicks- Landslide Simon and Garfunkel- For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her Tracy Chapman- The Promise Toad the Wet Sprocket- Windmills The Psychedelic Furs- The Ghost in You American Girl- Tom Petty Yaz- Too Pieces Joni Mitchell- Both Sides Now Jane's Addiction- Jane Says Madonna- Like a Prayer Lightening Seeds- Pure Bowie and Queen- Under Pressure INXS- Beautiful Girl Cake- I Will Survive Elton John- Tiny Dancer The Jackson Five- ABC-123 Five Stairsteps- Ooh Ooh Child The Violent Femmes- Blister in the Sun Kate Bush- This Woman's Work Dave Matthew's Band- Satellite The Smiths- Girlfriend in a Coma
I have that album. Is it really called "In the Time Machine?" Because my copy just says Billy Pilgrim, so I thought it was self-titled. "Try" is a great song (the one from MSCL for those who don't know), but there are some other very fine songs on it. Anyway, many of my favorites have already been mentioned - Tori, Sarah McLachlan, Radiohead (The Bends; OKC does nothing for me), Queensryche, Beatles, Counting Crows, etc. I share a lot of the same tastes displayed here so far, but a lot of my other tastes haven't been shared by anyone, so there's probably a lot of names here people have never heard of. Anyway, barring compilations and repeats, here goes nothing... Dream Theater: Images and Words The Beatles: Abbey Road Spock's Beard: The Light Neal Morse: Neal Morse Transatlantic: Bridge Across Forever Counting Crows: August and Everything After Pineapple Thief: 137 Radiohead: The Bends Seal: Seal (1994) Toy Matinee: Toy Matinee Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel (I love Little Earthquakes equally, but if I had to choose...) Okay, I know that was 11, but it was mentally impossible to remove one. And here's the obligatory "honorable mentions." (God, these lists are difficult...) Kaytee Bodle: Songer-Singwriter Dream Theater: Scenes From a Memory Fates Warning: A Pleasant Shade of Gray The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Conception: Flow Galactic Cowboys: Space In Your Face Billy Joel: Turnstiles Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime Queensryche: Promised Land Spock's Beard: The Kindness of Strangers Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes Symphony X: The Divine Wings of Tragedy - Jim
Kaytee Bodle: Girl With Guitar http://girlwithguitar.0catch.com (audio, video, tabs, lyrics, etc.) dTheater - well, Billy Pilgrim have 3 albums; the first one, with 'Try' on it, and 'Get me out of Here' (best lyrics ever) is, I think, untitled; certainly my CD has nothing but 'billy pilgrim' on it.
the second album is a bit more rocky but still with some great songs and is called 'Bloom'. In the Time Machine is their third, and in my opinion best, album. ![]() I first heard them on MSCL, and then randomly my cousin sent me a tape with some samples of other artists and BP, and I had to track down the albums (this was hard, before Cdbaby.com existed)... That same tape is also where I first heard the Indigo Girls (Argh, another album I left off the list... best song 'Ghost') so I think I have alot to thank her for... ![]() --------------------------------------------- http://www.urban-hills.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------
Okay, I am sooo excited about everyone posting back! We all have great taste in music!!!
Debs, I am working on my song list for your question about the soundtrack to our lives. Work is busy right now but I'll try to post that later. Keep this thread going everyone. ![]() "You're sooo beautiful, it HURTS to look at you."
Re: *THE CD OF YOUR LIFE*
What can I say, doll? My specialty is ruining others' concentration. ![]() ![]() I can't believe you put the above three songs on your list. Do you LIVE in my brain???? All three of these are some of my favorites. I am a Nina Simone freak!!! She has such an amazing voice. "You're sooo beautiful, it HURTS to look at you."
Okay, here is my LOOOOOOONG list of favorite songs of all time...
![]() ![]() ![]() Led Zeppelin- That's the Way Led Zeppelin- Travelling Riverside Blues The Beatles- Blackbird The Beatles- While My Guitar Gently Weeps Eric Clapton- Layla (the end piano part only!) Stevie Wonder- Sir Duke Stevie Wonder- I Wish Otis Redding- Try a Little Tenderness Otis Redding- These Arms of Mine Otis Redding- Can't Turn You Loose Indigo Girls- Ghost Portishead- Glory Box India.Arie- Video Madonna- Frozen Simon & Garfunkel- Scarborough Fair Paul Simon- Kodachrome Neil Diamond- Sweet Caroline Radiohead- No Surprises Radiohead- Nice Dream Radiohead- You and Whose Army? Crosby Stills & Nash- Southern Cross CSN & Young- Our House Prince- Under the Cherry Moon Prince- The Beautiful Ones Sarah McLachlan- Ice Cream Sarah McLachlan- Fear Sarah McLachlan- I Will Not Forget You Tori Amos- Winter Tori Amos- Precious Things Donovan- Season of the Witch Mazzy Star- Fade Into You Crowded House/Neil Finn- Don't Dream It's Over Depeche Mode- Blue Dress Depeche Mode- Personal Jesus Joni Mitchell- The Circle Game Bob Dylan- Hurricane Alanis Morrisette- Thank U Alanis Morisette- So Unsexy Nina Simone- Feelin' Good Glenn Miller- Moonlight Serenade Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong- Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) Billie Holiday- I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm Elton John- Someone Saved My Life Tonight Billy Joel- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant The Mamas and The Papas- Dedicated to the One I Love The Beach Boys- Wouldn't it Be Nice Weezer- Undone (The Sweater Song) The Smiths- Stretch Out and Wait The Cure- Pictures of You Mary J. Blige- I Love You Coldplay- Trouble Beck- Odelay Nirvana- Pennyroyal Tea Pearl Jam- Jeremy Pearl Jam- Black The Verve- Bittersweet Symphony Beastie Boys- Paul Revere Violent Femmes- Kiss Off The Doors- Waiting for the Sun Foo Fighters- Walking After You Ummm....that's all I can think of for now! There's only about a million more...sheesh. I really am obsessed with music. ![]() ![]() "You're sooo beautiful, it HURTS to look at you."
From this week's horoscope in The Onion:
![]() ![]() I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
-- Clarence Darrow I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. -- Mark Twain
I would've posted my track list earlier but I knew it'd be quite bulky so I had to wait for some free time... so here it is, in no particular order:
![]() I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
-- Clarence Darrow I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. -- Mark Twain
Hey, I LIKE these little lists! And I will try and keep mine little, but I don't think I'll be able to - gonna have to have 20 cds, I'll pack strategically...This ain't gonna be easy and like everyone else, I had to leave off quite a lot but here goes. Oh and I may repeat a few, but that just goes to show we are all sorta like-minded, very cool. Also, had to include compilations, which MAY be cheating, but unavoidable. I mean, we're talking STRANDED here!
1. Jamiroquai - Funk Odyessy (oddly, I just mentioned this the other day, been listening to it the last few nights!) 2. Tom Petty - Greatest Hits, they're all in there 3. Twin Peaks Soundtrack - VERY cool 4. Jeff Buckley - Grace 5. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand the Weather (add in the song Pride +Joy) 6. Seal, 1994 release 7. Afro-Latin Groove '!Sabroso!' - really great compilation 8. Rolling stones - Emotional Rescue 9. Rolling Stones - Tatoo You 10. Valley Girl Soundtrack - gotta have the cool 80s tunes! 11. Propellerheads - Decksanddrumsandrockandroll 12. INXS - Shabooh Shoobah 13. The Last Days of Disco Soundtrack - ya, baby! 14. Cranberrys - Bury the Hatchet 15. Sheryl Crowe - Globe Sessions 16. Third Eye Blind, 1997 realease 17. The Police - Regatta de Blanc 18. The Police - Outlandos d' Amour 19. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall, imho the only good one 20. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life Honorable mentions: No Doubt - Rock Steady + Chris Isaak- Silvertone. (Oh ya! Pixies - Trompe le Monde, Surfer Rosa, and Garbage 2.0. There, done.) MAN, I'm worn out!! Gonna go listen to some of these. "Oh, just say the word and she's a footnote in history. I'll make it look like a painful accident..."
It is impossible to just read this thread and go with out leaving a little 'dessert island' list of my own.
1. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity Before the hype and before their presence on MTV these guys released an emotionally charged album and clearly out did themselves at the tender age of 23. 2.Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness Shot themselves in the foot by doing this record so early in their career. 3.TripleFast Action - Cattlemen Don't Indie Alt-rock. Everything I like in a band. 4.Nirvana - Unplugged Self-explanatory 5.The Juliana Theory - Emotion Is Dead Before you hear them all over the radio in about 2 months, get their last cd. It's frickin amazing. Rock/Punk/Alt/Trance. Lotsa goodies.
goddamnit sucked me in....
I dont think i posted a list before in this thread...if so too bad lol, I will try to keep it small. List of albums in no particular order: =============== Joy Division - Disc 1 of the Heart and Soul box set Pixies - Surfer Rosa Pixies - Come On Pilgrim Cure - Staring at the Sea Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors Bright Eyes - Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground Hum - You'd Prefer an Astronaut My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Small Brown Bike - Dead Reckoning Stiffs Inc. - Nix Nought Nothing planesmistakenforstars - f*** With Fire Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album Rainer Maria - A Better Version of Me Rainer Maria - Past Worn Searching The Shins - Oh, Inverted World Poster Children - Flower Plower Poster Children - Junior Citizen Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park Nurse With Wound / Stereolab - Crumb Duck Nurse With Wound - Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars Simon & Garfunkle - Sounds of Silence =============== Ok enough for now, i am sure i missed a ton of albums....i will probably add to the list. EDIT: Just noticed the "favorite song" question. I'm adding at the bottom.
I'm biting the bullet and limiting myself to five albums. For added difficulty, I'm excluded "Best Of" and "Greatest Hits" collections, so there goes The Monkees, The Temptations, Creedence, Barry White, George Thorogood, James, and Matthew Sweet. Nope, I'm keeping myself to actual albums. So, in the order I chose them: 1. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head 2. David Gray - A Century Ends 3. Jewel - This Way 4. U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind 5. U2 - Achtung Baby The Coldplay album is a no-brainer: it's quite possibly the greatest album in ten years. A Century Ends was a tough call: I have three DG albums (this one and his most recent two albums - I'll hunt down the others when I can), and it was tough to pick only one. While White Ladder and A New Day at Midnight are also great - and more sonically interesting - David Gray's debut album has the most heart-wrenching songs: "Shine," "Let the Truth Sting," and "Birds Without Wings." I'm also a big Jewel fan, owning her three albums, but This Way was an easier decision to make. While the first two have some of her most beautiful, vulnerable songs ("Near You Always" and "Absence of Fear", respectively), they also have songs I usually skip over ("Pieces of You" and "Fat Boy"). This Way is the strongest album overall. Above all other bands, U2 is by far my favorite. I still wanted to limit myself to only one of their albums, and three stick out as immediate contenders: The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, and All That You Can't Leave Behind. While ATYCLB has the least original sound of the three, its meditation on life, death, and grace make it more poignant for me. That said, it was another very close call. Finally, after looking at the other albums I owned, I realized there were no others that I would prefer over another U2 album, and I chose Achtung Baby over The Joshua Tree, if only because it serves as a better counterpoint to ATYCLB and my other three choices: irony instead of sincerity, murkiness instead of clarity. It's a dark, sexy album; to use Bono's term, it has "hips." Reviewing my list, I see two trends: first, 4 of the 5 albums come from the British Isles: U2 (Ireland), Coldplay (England), and David Gray (Wales). I'm originally from Birmingham, Alabama, so I dunno how this happened. Second, 3 of the 5 albums were released in the last three years, which gives me hope that great music will continue to be made, despite the music industry's best efforts to drown us in crap. EDIT: The "best-songs-in-an-album" question is also a toughie, particularly because one has to worry about things like song length, track order, etc. On first glance, too many of the songs come from the albums listed above, so I gave myself the following rule: Only one song per artist. I make a single exception for U2, but the exception is completely understandable. I also exclude instrumental music (Beethoven, Chopin, Glenn Miller) and limit myself to pop, country, and R&B. So, in order, the ultimate CD: 1. "Bad to the Bone" - George Thorogood & the Destroyers 2. "Mary Jane's Last Dance" - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers 3. "Girlfriend" - Matthew Sweet 4. "I Can't Get Next to You" - The Temptations 5. "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" - Barry White 6. "Here With Me" - Dido 7. "The Scientist" - Coldplay 8. "Near You Always" - Jewel 9. "Shine" - David Gray 10. "Out to Get You" - James 11. "Perfect Day" - Lou Reed 12. "Flesh and Blood" - Johnny Cash 13. "Can't Help Falling in Love" -Elvis Presley 14. "With or Without You" - U2 15. "One" - U2 16. "The Maker" - Daniel Lanois 17. "Lookin' Out My Back Door" - Creedence Clearwater Revival 18. "Uncloudy Day" - Willie Nelson A CD holds about 74 minutes of music, and I think I clock in at 72:24. Truth. Beauty. Freedom. And above all things... Love.
SO HARD! How am I going to narrow it down? Screw it... I've got more than 10 on my list. Here they are in no particular order:
Four Charms - Flatland Boogie Joel Paterson - Down at the Depot Ani DiFranco - Little Plastic Castle Od Tapo Imi - LIVE Wes Montgomery - Movin' Wes Grant Green - Born to be Blue Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess Sarah Vaughn - The Jazz Sides B.B. King - Greatest Hits Oscar Peterson Trio - Stratford Shakespearean Festival Weezer - Weezer Buddy Holly - From the Original Master Tapes Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Keb' Mo' - Keb' Mo' Billie Holiday - Love Songs The High Street Quartet - The High Street Quartet The High St. Quartet was a jazz combo I played guitar in a couple years ago. We made a CD my senior year of high school. I'd probably also want to bring the CD I made my junior year of my first five compositions. I'll have to think more about songs for an ideal mix CD.
Good topic. I'm giving myself 2 minutes to name the top 10 CDs I want on that desert isle. Starting now!
1. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours 2. Almost Famous Soundtrack 3. Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac (The OTHER White Album) 4. Apocalypse Now Soundtrack 5. U2, Rattle and Hum 6. Kate Bush, Sensual World 7. IXS, X 8. Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run 9. Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA 10. Enya, Enya Doing this actually took more than 2 minutes. But, I had to work while I was making the list. I tried not to use greatest hits albums. Soundtrack albums are kind of a cheat, too, but what can you do? TomSpeed
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